Would you pay $325 for a non-alcoholic spirit? Seedlip hopes you will

“Dry January”, which saw many people give up alcohol for the month, may be over, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop. Indeed, one non-alcoholic drink certainly looks very tempting.

Seedlip, which retails for HK$328 for 700ml, is designed to keep your non-alcoholic streak going strong. 

Billed as the world’s first luxury distilled non-alcoholic spirit, its tagline is: ‘What to drink when you’re not drinking”. 

Just to be clear, Seedlip isn’t a fancy way of saying “juice” (although we admit we thought so at first). The drinks are the product of a bespoke maceration process, where the ingredients undergo a six-week copper-pot distillation and filtration, much like  that a spirit would undergo. 

The finished product is then best served with tonic, or used as the base for martinis and other sour-style drinks, to create a complex, full-bodied non-alcoholic cocktail (or, you know, a mocktail). 

There are two flavours, or “expressions” as the brand calls them: Seedlip Garden 108 and Seedlip Spice 94. 

Seedlip Garden 108, is described as “the essence of the English countryside” with top notes of peas and hay. 

Holding the concoction together is a herbal base  of spearmint, rosemary and thyme.